THREE SPANISH POTTERY RECTANGULAR ARMORIAL CEILING TILES

CIRCA 1400-1450, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES

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THREE SPANISH POTTERY RECTANGULAR ARMORIAL CEILING TILES
CIRCA 1400-1450, VALENCIA, PROBABLY MANISES
Each painted in blue with a quartered shield with two three-turreted castles, a lion rampant and a wolf rampant, within vertical borders of stylised foliage (one with crescent-shaped chip to lower edge, all with flaking and losses to glaze and small rim chips)
15¾ in. x 13½ in. (40 cm. x 34.2 cm.)

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Lot Essay

See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, London, 2000, pl. 71, and p. 321, nos. 636 and 367 for two tiles with the same unidentified arms, which differs from the arms of León-Castilla in having a wolf or dog in the fourth quarter rather than a lion. Tiles of this type were used to adorn spaces between ceiling beams, and as Ray points out, 'relatively few specimens have survived', and tiles bearing this coat of arms originate from just a few buildings, which 'presumably belonged to the same overlord'.

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